With mighty Ravenloft finally upon us, and the more hardcore among us already madly sifting through the old pre-painted D&D skirmish line for the "exact right" pieces, I wonder how long it will be before the marketing machine that is WOTC, release's a special edition "HEROES and VILLIANS OF RAVENLOFT" set, of all our Ravenloft friends, taking all the hard work out of tracking down the old skirmish minis?

Vote here my gaming brothers and sisters and let time prove us right, wrong, or very very drunk...

Your voting choices as follows...A) NEVER.B) DOUBT IT, BUT MAYBE?C) I HOPE THEY DO, I WOULD BUY IT.D) I HOPE THEY DONT, I WOULD KILL THEM.E) PURPLE MONKEY DISWASHER.(note, E is not a real vote, you just dont like A,B,C or D.)

EDIT- A lot of positive "C" answers so far and still some playing it safe around the "B" mark... But what if WOTC "sweetened the pot" a bit by ALSO including a few special edition exclusive "enhanced monster" cards and never before seen treasure cards! You would ALL be "C" for sure! Admit it! I would buy it for so much as ONE lousy special ed card!And what if it was FOIL!!! Eeek I would die trying to get it!I am green with envy to all those who scored the promo hag card at gencon!

Each D&D Miniatures set had 40-some miniatures. So, conceivably, you could have a "Castle Ravenloft" D&D Miniatures set, which would p*ss off D&D Miniatures players (rerelease previous sculpts) and boardgamers (random package).

The latest D&D Minatures set had a fixed set of five miniatures (four small and one large) for $15. The current random miniatures booster packaging is $15 for the same. With Ravenloft having 42 miniatures, that's eight sets or $120 in prepaints at retail price. Fixed sets of 3 heroes go for about $12. Cheaper than $300 on eBay, I suppose!

IIRC, The previous starter, War Drums, had 12 miniatures (2 fixed, 10 random) for $20. So that's $80 for 48 miniatures, retail price. With $20 being the impulse point of purchase, a boardgamer could buy all the prepaints over a month at his FLGS.

Doesn't look like WotC will release prepaints. As I understand it, prepaints are a loss.

Hm, it just dawned on me that it makes sense to get "Monsters Vault" from the new D&D Essentials line for some cool counter replacements for the miniatures! I think I would prefer nice colour graphics to unpainted minis.

Doesn't look like WotC will release prepaints. As I understand it, prepaints are a loss.

If I recall correctly, I think someone on official D&D mini's forum speculated that DDMs would be going away to be replaced by counters.

Well, I hope they don't do away with DDMs, and would glady buy themed sets if they did it for RV. Especially since I like all the monsters they have listed so far for it, so duplicates wouldn't bother me in the least.

So, option C. Buy and be happy. Though I do like option E, I'm sure PETA will be writing you a nasty letter about working conditions for monkeys. Perhaps try an invisible purple monkey dishwasher.

E I just like anything about monkeys. It would have to be heroes I liked and better quality than the D&D minis I have seen. Call me old school, but I don't like that dragon headed dude. I like my warriors to look like Roland etc